Final Days before LCA2010
January 14, 2010 FOSS, LCA2010, NewZealand, OpenSolaris 2 CommentsOver the last 9 months, Jayne and I have been involved in helping to organize linux.conf.au here in Wellington, New Zealand. For those who aren’t familiar with the conference, it is by far one of the best free and open source conferences in the southern hemisphere and attracts an absolutely awesome line up of speakers and since registrations began in October we’ve now reached close to 600 delegates. If you happen to be in New Zealand I’d strongly urge you to register and join us for what we be a great week!
After organizing GUADEC in Dublin back in 2003, I swore to myself I’d never be involved in another conference. GUADEC was a pretty stressful experience, though incredibly rewarding. As it turns out, LCA2010 is pretty similar. Fortunately this time, we have a brilliant team behind us led by the excellent Andrew and Susanne and things are coming together really well. We’re all looking forward to the conference next week, and we hope all the delegates will enjoy it as much as we’ve enjoyed planning it.
So, which sessions am I looking forward not to see?
- All the keynotes – it will be my first chance to listen to the excellent Glyn Moody and Biella Coleman, and always enjoyed Mako and Nat in the past.
- Jon Corbet’s Kernel Report
- Don Christie’s Changing NZ Desktop stack to FOSS
- Tridge and Bob’s Teaching FOSS at Universities
- Cat and Leslie’s Attracting and Retaining Talented People
- Tridge’s Patent defense for free software
- All the activities of LCA Open Day
From a work point of view, like most other conferences, it’s a great chance to see what the Linux community is up to, including challenges they face and features they’re developing. There’s even some OpenSolaris related content scattered across the conference – ZFS in Data Storage and Retrieval miniconf, pkgbuild and Source Juicer in the Distro miniconf, and an OpenSolaris booth at Open Day. It will be great to see how far we’ve come with the project, and get a feeling of general awareness that OpenSolaris really has changed significantly in the last couple of years.
Not to late to GO REGISTER!
